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This meteorite’s diamonds hint that it was born in a lost planet

As leftover fragments from the formation of the solar system, meteorites can act as time capsules that have some strange stories to tell. Scientists at the EPFL have now cracked open one of these time capsules – a piece of an asteroid known as 2008 TC3 – and found diamonds that could only have come from a large, long-lost planet that roamed our neighborhood billions of years ago...
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Diamonds found in meteorites on Earth may have come from an ancient long-dead planet the size of Mercury or Mars, the first potential known relics from these lost worlds, a new study finds.
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